Bayer-Monsanto: A “Marriage Made in Hell”?

Monsanto has agreed to be sold to Bayer for $56.5 billion − a deal worth a total of $66 billion when Monsanto’s debt is taken into account. The combined company would be the world’s largest seller of both seeds and agrichemicals.

Monsanto, arguably the most loathed GMO company on the face of the earth, has been the subject of heated discussions for decades, especially in recent days as their top-selling product (RoundUp) contains glyphosate, which has been linked to cancer, autism, and respiratory sickness.

Monsanto has lobbied widely and even filed lawsuits to prohibit labeling of GMO products and bury the World Health Organization’s report listing glyphosate as a probable carcinogen. If Monsanto joins forces with Bayer (one of the most hated Big Pharma companies in the world), the resulting “marriage made in hell” would be a drug-seed-pesticide company that controls almost 1/3 of the world’s seed market and almost ¼ of the pesticide market. Many would argue that this would equate to a monopoly. More on that topic later in the article.

But this would not be the first time Monsanto and Bayer have teamed up. During the Vietnam War, both firms were involved in the development of Agent Orange. And both firms are currently involved in the GMO market today. Speaking of GMOs, I was watching Fox News Channel a couple of days ago and the “expert” being interviewed said that this was necessary in order to feed the world and that GMO foods are the only solution. WRONG!

Apparently said “expert” is unfamiliar with the recent research, specifically the IAASTD Report, which is the most comprehensive report on the future of food and agriculture (sponsored by the World Bank and the UN, written by over 400 scientists and endorsed by 59 countries).

In this report, they did not endorse GMOs as a solution to world hunger. In addition, genetic engineering has not significantly increased U.S. crop yields, according to the USDA and controlled comparative studies. As a matter of fact, many GMOs have lower yields than non-GMO crops. Did I mention that GMO crops have been linked to cancer and have numerous potential health risks?

Let’s look at the sordid history of both of these companies…

A Brief History of BAYER

• Founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and his partner, Johann Friedrich Weskott.

• During World War 1, Bayer turned its attention to the manufacture of chemical weapons including chlorine gas.

• In 1925, Bayer, BASF, and Hoechst merged to form the massive German conglomerate Interessengemeinschaft Farben (IG Farben) which was the single biggest donor to Hitler’s election campaign.

• IG Farben built the concentration camps at Auschwitz to supply slave labor for the nearby IG Farben plant (also known as IG Auschwitz). Hitler eventually used these same camps in his megalomaniacal attempt to exterminate the Jewish race.

• In 1941, Otto Armbrust, the IG Farben board member responsible for IG Farben’s Auschwitz project, told his colleagues, “our new friendship with the SS is a blessing. We have determined all measures integrating the concentration camps to benefit our company.”

• A subsidiary of IG Farben manufactured and supplied Zyklon B to the SS. This poisonous cyanide-based pesticide, on which IG Farben held the patent, was used during the Holocaust to annihilate more than 1,000,000 people in the concentration/extermination camps. IG Farben also supplied the SS with the Methanol used to burn the corpses.

• In 1946, the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal concluded that without IG Farben the Second World War would simply not have been possible.

• At Nuremberg, Fritz ter Meer (an executive of IG Farben) was convicted of slavery, mass murder, and crimes against humanity. After serving 5 years in prison, he became Chairman of the Board at Bayer in 1956, a position which he held for almost a decade.

• In 1962, just fifteen years after they were convicted in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, Bayer, BASF and Hoechst were again the architects of the next major human rights offence when they established the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

• In the mid-1980s, Bayer was one of the companies which sold a product called Factor VIII concentrate to treat hemophilia. Factor VIII turned out to be infected with HIV. After learning that the product was contaminated, in order to save money, Bayer continued selling this infected product to Asia and Latin America even though a safe product was available. Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, who investigated the scandal, commented, “These are the most incriminating internal pharmaceutical industry documents I have ever seen.”

• In the 1990s, the federal government launched an investigation on Bayer’s unethical billing practices on Medicaid program and the Department of Justice found Bayer guilty of fraud. Bayer had to pay $14 Million to settle charges of causing inflated Medicaid claims.

• Yaz (approved by FDA in 2006) and Yasmin (2001) were revolutionary birth control pills that use a synthetic hormone called drospirenone (DSP). Yaz or Yasmin have led to hundreds of deaths in young and healthy women.

• The drug Trasylol was banned in 2006 after it contributed to thousands of deaths in patients every single month for over a decade. After a 2006 study showed widespread deaths associated with Trasylol, it took FDA and Bayer almost two years to take the drug off of the market. Later on it was revealed that Bayer had buried evidence of Trasylol’s severe side effects.

• In 2008, the German Coalition against Bayer brought a charge against the Bayer Board of Management, with the public prosecutor in Freiburg accusing Bayer of contributing to the mass death of bees all over the world through its aggressive pesticide marketing. Since then, the bee debacle has only grown worse, with thousands of hives collapsing after poisoning by the pesticide clothianidin, producing a worldwide crisis.

MONSANTO’S Poisonous Past

• Monsanto was founded in 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri, by John Francis Queeny, a 30-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry. Its first product was the artificial sweetener Saccharin, which Monsanto sold to the Coca-Cola Company.

• In the 1920s, Monsanto Chemical Company was founded and incorporated the town of Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois. For years, the Monsanto plant in Sauget was the nation’s largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were banned in the 1970s. PCBs are potent carcinogens and have been implicated in reproductive, developmental and immune system disorders. According to thousands of pages of released Monsanto documents (many of them emblazoned with warnings such as “CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy”), they knew about the PCB dangers from early on, but decided to conceal what they knew. One Monsanto memo explains their justification: “We can’t afford to lose one dollar of business.”

• During World War II, Monsanto played a significant role in the Manhattan Project to develop the atom bomb.

• In 1944, Monsanto began manufacturing DDT, which was banned in 1972.

• Following World War II, Monsanto championed the use of chemical pesticides in agriculture, and began manufacturing the herbicide 2,4,5-T, which contains dioxin. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military initiated an herbicidal warfare program using Agent Orange (a mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D and had very high concentrations of dioxin) as a defoliant.

Monsanto and Dow Chemical were the two largest producers of Agent Orange, which has been linked to cancer and birth defects. According to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000 deaths and disabilities, plus 500,000 children born with birth defects, leading to calls for Monsanto to be prosecuted for war crimes. Internal Monsanto memos show that Monsanto knew of the problems of dioxin contamination of Agent Orange when it sold it to the U.S. government for use in Vietnam.

• In 1973, Monsanto developed and patented the glyphosate molecule and began manufacturing Roundup. In 2015, the World Health Organization declared glyphosate to be a probable carcinogen. Despite this fact, Roundup is still marketed as “safe.”

• In 1982, Monsanto genetically modified a plant cell for the first time.

• In the mid-1980s, Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame’s clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it “might induce brain tumors.” The aspartame business became a separate Monsanto subsidiary, the NutraSweet Company.

• In the late-1980s and early-1990s, Monsanto spent almost $500,000 to defeat Proposition 65 (California’s anti-toxics initiative which prohibited the discharge of chemicals known to cause cancer or birth defects into drinking water supplies) and Proposition 128 (California’s pesticide regulation initiative that would have phased out Monsanto’s product alachlor, which is linked to cancer). During the same time period, Monsanto also conducted the first field tests of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.

• In 1991, Monsanto was fined $1.2 million for trying to conceal discharge of contaminated waste water into the Mystic River in Connecticut.

• In the mid-1990s, Monsanto developed their controversial cattle drug, recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST), which is produced through a genetically engineered E. coli bacteria.

• During the same time period, Monsanto was ranked 5th among U.S. corporations in EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory, having discharged 37 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air, land, water and underground. Monsanto was ordered to pay $41.1 million to a waste management company in Texas due to concerns over hazardous waste dumping.

Bayer Monsanto Union: A Dark and Dangerous Threat

The above bullet points about Bayer and Monsanto are merely the tip of the iceberg. I could have written an entire book detailing the unscrupulous activities that these companies have engaged in over the past century. But I think you get the point. This “hidden” history of Bayer and Monsanto indicates that both of these companies have consistently been involved with malevolent endeavors that wreaked havoc on humanity and caused sickness, pain, and death on a massive scale. These companies are like a cancer eating away at the physical fabric of our world.

If these two companies join forces, the dark and dangerous synergy and malignant power will metastasize and be so great that, figuratively speaking, the universe might explode! To use a Lord of the Rings analogy, it would be like Sauron acquiring the One Ring.

Will this merger actually happen? It’s hard to say. Thankfully, there are anti-trust laws in place that will force the entire deal to undergo tremendous scrutiny and lengthy regulatory processes in the USA as well as the EU. “This merger is not a slam dunk,” said Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute. Also, a legal opinion written by two former Department of Justice officials (Antitrust Division) argues that the merger would violate the Clayton Act and would also be in direct violation of a 2008 court order.

A Bayer-Monsanto merger certainly threatens the world food supply with domination by GMOs and destructive, carcinogenic agrochemicals. Thanks primarily to the anti-GMO and “Millions Against Monsanto” movements, the behemoth biotech bully is on the ropes.

Perhaps Monsanto thinks that if it changes its name, that we will forget its poisonous past. Think again Monsanto.

On October 14-16, Monsanto’s crimes against humanity will be exposed at the Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands.

Remember, all it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing. We must stick together and help educate our neighbors in order to continue the good fight together… for our children and every future generation to come.

Perhaps it’s time to put Bayer and Big Pharma on trial as well and build an even bigger worldwide unified assembly. Maybe we could call it “Billions Against Big Pharma and Bayer-Monsanto.”

Please share this important news story with friends and family and together let’s all take action to stop this merger.

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Well said! This is a good point. I totally agree that big Pharma, Monsanto, and Bayer should be put on trial and banned forever. People with chronic illnesses should be treated with natural remedies and healthy food from the ‘Health Food Store’. We should all just eat raw organic fruits and vegetables and do our own natural juicing and avoid all meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, and desserts. No wonder people are having all kinds of health problems at a very young age.

Yes, Sylvia, AVOID ALL MEAT, POULTRY, FISH, EGGS, DAIRY PRODUCTS AND DESERTS!!! Check out Dr. Michael Greger MD’s book How Not to Die and his free website NutritionFacts.org! If we eat like we mentioned here, we do not need much of supplements and vitamins, if any! Yes, and we need to PRAY, FORGIVE and think of the needs of others, serving them!

Hi to LA. I’m so sorry for your infection. My husband fought a bone infection (called Brodie’s access) for 5 years. Three surgeries, 3 IV bag antibiotics treatments, and about 2 years worth of high dose strong antibiotics…..which did not fix it. He had edema, the infection was systemic, clogged lymph system….he was a mess. We found a nutritionist who absolutely saved his life. (After many, many Dr. who could not get a handle on it and we gave it 5 years worth of respectful trying) A herb called horsetail, oxygen baths, green juicing everyday, herbal teas, organic foods, bone broth, flax seed oil, the Ludwig diet modified – organic plain yogurt & flax seed, goats whey, turmeric, amla, garlic, onions, B complex, Vitamin D, apple cider vinegar, just natural stuff….nothing weird. Castor oil liver cleanses as well as dandelion tea. Sauna. It took her predicted eight months to heal. It was hard, hard work and expensive to buy the needed foods, herbs, and supplements. We also went to a Dr. of Naturalpathic medicine who was on the same page as the nutritionist but because my husband was so bad he felt the IV would help build his system faster, in case his body was tired of fighting. IV is expensive but it fuelled his body with needed vitamins and minerals to boost his immune system. Our bodies were meant to heal themselves. With so many drugs and antibiotics in his system, it was overloads and killing him. Detox your system. Get the junk out. Build your system with good, natural healing stuff. It will take time, but be relentless. We are overjoyed and amazed what we saw before our eyes as he healed….without drugs, only nature. And prayer. He would have died without this because medical had run out of solutions.

Marilyn, can you elaborate on the VERY serious infection for which you used goldenseal powder? I have been on antibiotics (3) for 10 months for pulmonary MAC and now have to go on Cipro for another pulmonary bacterial infection. I don’t think that I will take Cipro after reading the comments posted here.

Cancel that – I hate this page! It keeps moving things around & disappearing things! P.S. – the artemisinin product that I used was Nutricology Artemisinin. I feel it’s important to use this because it is a very high quality, pharmaceutical-grade product.

Nancy, apologies that you weren’t able to see my lengthy response to your question. I’m guessing links are not allowed here at all, even educational ones? (if anyone can clarify this I’d appreciate it)

I took goldenseal powder for listeria (the infection that landed me in ER) – 1 tsp. twice daily, and was symptom free in 4 days. I’m following up with Nutricology artemisinin for about a month (please research thoroughly, as it has to be done a certain way). And another powerful natural antibiotic I’d like you to research for yourself is mega-dose vitamin C, with which I have a very long and effective history of use. If done correctly (it also must be done a certain way), it is effective on any bacteria or virus. It can be done orally or by IV. Best of luck to you, and let me know of any questions.

This just keeps getting worse. We must fight to get the right information out there. Bottom line? Sick people are profitable. So where is the incentive to keep them well? The whole situation is just disgusting. Thanks Ty for all your efforts.

I would like to suggest to everyone this idea. Hit these companies where it will hurt the most Their bottom line Tell your financial advisor to divest any and all stocks in either company. Do not purchase any products manufactured by either company. There are many alternatives on the market..

To “C”: What a wonderful, amazing & powerful testimony to the REAL TRUTH ABOUT HEALTH!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!! As an 18 year cancer survivor (with natural medicine), it always thrills my heart to see these stories! May God continue to bless and keep you both in His care!

To Paul Calway: If you were a religious (I prefer ‘spiritual’) man, you would already have your answer. There is darkness in this world for a purpose – to challenge us all to wake from our slumber and look for the Light. To “push” us to the Light, as it were. To teach us about forgiveness and love, even in the worst of circumstances. Think of it this way… if everything was, and always had been, hunky-dory on our planet, we would take everything for granted, & in our ‘sleep’ would never aspire to greater heights or look for God, which is our whole purpose for being here. Another example – if one had never experienced pain, how could they truly know what pleasure is?

Granted, there have been many civilizations before us who have destroyed themselves because they weren’t capable of waking up in time… and sad to say if something doesn’t change, and soon – modern humanity is about to go down that same path. The object of the game is to get enough people to wake up & take action to get the “dark side” under control. We will always have it with us on our planet, but the funny thing is that it is all controlled by a very small number of people, compared to the massive numbers of the rest of us. If we could have only learned to drop our differences and unite – ages ago, there would never have even been such a situation to begin with. Our massive numbers would have kept darkness at bay from the get go. Freedom & peace are not automatic, and they are not awarded to those who sleep. They must be earned. And yes, the dark ones have purposely made it easy for us to go to sleep – in a million ways. We must find a way to push through that if we are to survive. Those of the Light must keep a constant, never-ending vigil against the Dark. We still have the chance today, to drop our facades & realize, finally, that we are all in this together. There is no white/black, gay/straight, Dems/Repubs, or a thousand other forms of division that have been PURPOSELY CREATED by the dark to prevent us from uniting. None of these are REAL – we are ALL ONE. If we could only KNOW that, and ACT AS ONE, we would rid ourselves of this mess tomorrow! But will enough of us wake up – in time??? That is the million dollar question….

These greedy and yes, evil-acting individuals, are thriving, as you say, but just for a time! Sooner or later they will reap the results of their actions! This is the law of karma. As we don’t always see cause and effect it “appears” that they are getting away with their evil actions and need not be accountable. But this is not forever! The day will come when they will have to explain themselves and will not be able to! For some hell may not become a reality but for some it will—at least for a time! Our Indian teacher Sri Sri Thakur put it this way: “Don’t break down thinking about fate. Work on! Don’t be idle! For just as you work so is your fate unfurled to your vision. The doer of good never fares ill. He gets his rewards sooner or later.”

Are you really that stupid to make a comment like that!?! He hasn’t paid taxes in about 10 years, millions of dollars in taxes that us regular working people have to make up…H. Clinton is no saint and would have been the same ole establishment, what she lied about is but a drop in the bucket to the verified Trump lies…& check on his on foundation & business dealings…do some research, stop being the typical stupid, lazy American!!! He will never understand GMO…too much money involved for him…

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